May 19, 2010

Dancehall Artist Grown and Sexy! -Aging Gracefully-Entertainers-

The late songstressAaliyah once sang the undeniable words, ‘age ain’t
nothing but a number’, and Jay Z recently announced that forty is the new
twenty, but a lot of Jamaicans obviously haven’t gotten these messages, clearly
proven when one of the hottest topics in the streets of Jamaica and on the
internet, is the age of some of our top entertainers and who should retire and
who shouldn’t. There is no denying that everyone is entitled to their own
opinion, but when ones opinion is shrouded by the blurriness of senseless
analysis, addressing the matter is inevitable.

Vybz Kartel recently
addressed Bounty Killer as a Dinosaur, carbon-dating him as
prehistoric, (when he; Kartel, is a mere three years Killer’s junior), causing
the Warlord to not only get cross, angry and miserable, but also forced him to
literally go hard or go home.

Dancehall diva Macka Diamond seems to be the latest victim of the age
discussion, with claims on the internet that she is fifty years or older, when
nothing is further from the truth. What however is really funny about this argument
is that those who are making these ridiculous claims feel as if music started
with them, and will end with them. So with that said, the obvious question seems to be, what
is the retirement age in the Jamaican entertainment
industry, because although some are talking, one look around and we can see
that there are those inside and outside our shores who have continued working
way into their twilight years, and are actually doing a wonderful job of it, so
what is all the talk of age, and who is old and should retire all about, when
all the real heavyweights in the entertainment industry are all grown, and
still very sexy.

Now with most of the relevant ages on the table, maybe we can all agree
that Aaliyah was right after all, because from the list above, it’s quite clear
that age ain’t nothing but a number, wouldn’t you
agree?